- Title
- Art in the public schools, years 1-12
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- Date
- 1949
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- Creator
- ["Wetherington, Julia."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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- Series
- Publication (North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction); no. 238.
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Art in the public schools, years 1-12
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Art in the Public Schools
tion and in the recognition of the value of art in the lives of
people. There is an increase in the number of students of art
and the number of public schools and colleges offering art
courses.
A review of late and contemporary artists contributing in
North Carolina arts, who have been included in one-man shows
or group exhibitions, would include Elliot Daingerfield, Charles
Baskerville, Jr., Mary de B. Groves Reese, Ellis Arrington
Credle, Jacque Busbee, Gregory D. Ivey, Claude Howell, Ben F.
Williams, Mary Leath Thomas, John Rembert, Primrose Mc¬
Pherson, Harriett Bozart, Jenny Rembert, Elizabeth Hamrick
Mack, Earl Mueller, Kenneth Evett, Kenneth Harris, Mabel
Pugh, Clare Leighton (Eng.), Wm. C. Fields, Josef Albers
(Black Mountain College), Joseph Hutchinson, Kenneth Ness
and James McLean. Two native North Carolinians Harrison
Pittman and Frances Speight have won high distinction in the
arts.
The North Carolina State Art Society was organized in 1926
for the purpose of promoting art in the State and to aid in
securing a Museum of Art. In 1929 the State General Assembly
placed the Society under the control and patronage of the State.
The Board of Directors consists of 16 members, of whom the
Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Attor¬
ney General, and the chairman of the Art Committee of the
State Federation of Women’s Clubs are ex-officio members, with
four others appointed by the Governor and eight chosen by
members of the Society. In March 1939, the Society opened its
Gallery in the State Library Building, corner of Fayetteville
and Morgan Streets on the second floor in the east wing. It is
open daily, 9-5 on week days, 9-1 on Saturday and 2-5 on Sun¬
day.
The Robert F. Phifer collection of oils, water-colors, etchings
and Chinese and Japanese prints was presented to the Society
in 1928. Three famous originals, The Artists Daughter, by Wm.
M. Chase; Evening On The Seine by Birge Harrison; and A
Marquis de LaFayette, portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse, are hung
in the second floor corridor, State Library Building, which is
the entrance to the State Art Gallery.
The North Carolina State Art Society has an annual competi¬
tive exhibition each December of the works of North Carolina
artists, and from this the Gallery has acquired the following
paintings through 1948:
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